I started to become more self-disciplined at the age of 30

Chapter 74 73. Douyin's biggest anchor contract! From Shanghai to Chengdu!
Li Yumin stepped forward and grabbed Jiang Chen's hand, then said excitedly: "Jiang Chen, listening to your singing is such a pleasure. Listening to your songs is like seeing through life. It's amazing!"

Jiang Chen shook hands with Li Yumin, then broke free and said with a smile, "Thank you, thank you, Mr. Li."

Li Yumin quickly said, "You're welcome. I just expressed my actual feelings. Jiang Chen, I went back yesterday and held a meeting with the company leaders to discuss your situation. We are all optimistic about your future potential, so we decided to give you a bigger contract."

"Still sign a three-year contract, the amount will be increased to 100 million, and you will get 9.5 yuan in gift rewards, while we only need 0.5 yuan and a small amount of network fee! Every day when you start broadcasting, we will attract at least 10 million viewers for you."

"We have lowered the live broadcast time requirements for you again. The minimum live broadcast time per month is thirteen hours, which is less than half an hour per day on average. This contract can be said to be the largest and least restrictive contract on the entire network. No other platform can offer such a contract."

When Li Yumin spoke, he felt somewhat uneasy and conflicted.

This three-year contract is worth 100 million yuan, or more than 33 million yuan a year, which has already exceeded the contracts he has signed with several super anchors. If Jiang Chen agrees to it, this will be the largest anchor contract on Douyin.

He hopes Jiang Chen will agree, so that he can sign Jiang Chen to DouYue, and he will sign the contract personally. When Jiang Chen becomes popular in the future, he will also be able to enjoy the benefits and improve his position and status in the company.

However, he still had a little concern in his heart. What if Jiang Chen's popularity in outdoor live broadcasts did not continue? Then this contract would be a super bad contract, and he would also be blamed.

However, from a strategic point of view, he thinks that the problem is not serious. As long as he doesn't let the Penguin sign him away and doesn't give the Penguin any chance to rise, there will be no problem!

When the people around heard the contract, their eyes widened slightly.

Zhao Haitang, Liu Yujie, Zhang Zhiqiang and other bar owners were all a little shocked. They thought it would be easy to make money after Jiang Chen became famous, but they didn't expect it to be so easy that people would rush to give him 100 million yuan directly.

Han Qing was also stunned for a moment, and then stood next to Jiang Chen. No matter what Jiang Chen decided, she would support him.

Several people looked at Jiang Chen.

Li Yumin also looked at Jiang Chen nervously, with mixed feelings. He hoped Jiang Chen would agree, but also hoped Jiang Chen would not agree. He was still struggling.

Without thinking too much, Jiang Chen shook his head and said to Li Yumin, "Thank you, Mr. Li, but I'm sorry, your contract still doesn't quite meet my expectations. I said, money is not the biggest problem!"

Li Yumin smiled bitterly and felt a little relieved, but he was still very disappointed. He whispered anxiously, "I know you don't want to be restricted, but a contract like that is really difficult!"

Zhang Li had been watching Li Yumin's performance and did not interrupt.

She was confident that no matter how big the contract Li Yumin offered, Jiang Chen would not agree.

Because the new song "You in the Past" sung by Jiang Chen today made her understand more clearly what Jiang Chen wanted.

In Jiang Chen's song just now, there was no mention of freedom in a single word, but the word freedom was hidden between the lines. Every breath was a yearning for freedom!

Therefore, Li Yumin only increased the amount of the signing fee. No matter how much it was, even if it was 100 million a year and 300 million for three years, Zhang Li believed that Jiang Chen would not agree.

Because Jiang Chen is not a person who loves money so much, he loves freedom more.

Zhang Li smiled and said, "Mr. Li, you still don't understand Jiang Chen. I understand Jiang Chen better. Jiang Chen, I have already made the contract in advance. We, Penguin, have signed you up for 20 live broadcasts in the future. The payment will be calculated based on the number of people in the live broadcast room. If the live broadcast time is more than half an hour, each person will be paid two yuan. If the live broadcast time is less than half an hour, each person will be paid one yuan. All the gifts and rewards in the live broadcast room will be given to you. Our platform does not charge a cent."

“There are no other restrictions. We don’t care when you want to live stream or when you want to live stream!”

“This is the freedom and respect we give you.”

As she spoke, Zhang Li handed a thick contract to Jiang Chen: "You can take a closer look, think about it, and sign the contract tomorrow! However, for the live broadcast just now, we will calculate the money for you according to the contract! There are more than 154,000 people online, and we will settle 310,000 for you, plus the more than 750,000 in rewards, a total of 1.07 million!"

"Please complete your personal information on the platform background, and I will ask the company to pay you immediately."

After hearing what Zhang Li said, the people around were surprised that Jiang Chen earned more than 700,000 yuan in tips for a live broadcast. Together with the head fee given by the platform, it was a total of more than 1 million yuan.

However, it was still not as shocking as the contract Li Yumin just gave.

Because Penguin Live calculates money based on the number of people, and a number as large as 100 million is not as shocking.

Moreover, out of more than one million, Penguin Live only paid 310,000 people per head, which seems to be a big gap compared to 100 million.

They knew that Jiang Chen would not have so many people online every day during his live broadcasts. When he was broadcasting outdoors, there would definitely be fewer people online. It seemed that this contract was not that generous.

but!

Several people calculated carefully in their minds, and then their faces changed slightly.

Even if Jiang Chen's outdoor live broadcast has only 50,000 people, and each person gets two yuan, that's 100,000 yuan, which is more than 36 million yuan a year, which is higher than the contract amount given by Li Yumin!
Moreover, when Jiang Chen was singing, the number of people must have far exceeded 50,000. 100,000 would not be surprising, that would be 200,000!

So even if there are 80,000 people per live broadcast, and the platform pays 160,000, that’s 50 to 60 million a year…

of course.

In fact, there are definitely not that many, because Jiang Chen may not broadcast live every day.

When they thought that Penguin Live had only signed a contract for Jiang Chen to have twenty live broadcasts, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Penguin Live also left them room for maneuver. They wanted to see the results of Jiang Chen's subsequent live broadcasts first.

Li Yumin was also somewhat relieved. He could also use the live broadcast results of Jiang Chen on Penguin during this period to formulate a subsequent strategy to sign Jiang Chen. He still did not give up the fight for Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen already had the answer in his mind. He nodded to Zhang Li and took the contract. "I'll go back and study it and get back to you."

Zhang Li smiled brightly: "I believe we will become happy partners. I understand you very well."

Jiang Chen smiled back at Jiang Chen: "I hope so!"

After saying that, Jiang Chen nodded to Zhang Li, then turned around and nodded to Zhao Haitang and the others, waved goodbye, and then turned and left.

He left in a very cool manner, without any drag or sadness, he just left as soon as he said he would.

Zhao Haitang had a complicated expression on his face, and he was still a little restless in his heart.

Pu Yuexi beside him whispered, "Do you want to go with him too?"

A blush and embarrassment flashed across Zhao Haitang's face, and then she shook her head and said softly: "I can't walk!"

Chen Xiaojia put his arm around Zhao Haitang's shoulders and said, "Let's go, you can watch our live broadcast at home."

Zhao Haitang sighed.

Liu Yujie next to him said: "Old Jiang is really cool and unrestrained. I envy him so much."

Wang Jinhua remained silent until she saw Jiang Chen leave. She did not say anything, but just turned around and left silently. She wanted to go home and have a good sleep. Maybe she would have a dream about seeing the grassland and desert.

Li Yumin was not too disappointed. Penguin Live had signed a contract for twenty shows anyway. If Jiang Chen worked harder and did one show every day, the contract would end after twenty days. He would then continue to compete for Jiang Chen.

He looked at Zhang Li: "Boss Zhang is so courageous!"

Zhang Li smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Li!"

Li Yumin sighed, then said goodbye to Zhao Haitang and the others and left.

DouYue is not unable to give Jiang Chen freedom, but if they cannot bind Jiang Chen, then what is the point of their contract with Jiang Chen? Jiang Chen came to DouYue to live broadcast, enjoyed DouYue's huge traffic, became more popular, and then left without saying goodbye, leaving other platforms with benefits?

DouYue really cannot do such a business that loses money and loses traffic.

Next time, Li Yumin can only look at Jiang Chen’s performance in these 20 games to see if he can continue to increase his salary based on the 100 million yuan in three years.

And this time.

Jiang Chen led Han Qing through the dense crowd outside. Everyone made way for Jiang Chen consciously and shouted at the same time.

"Lao Jiang!"

"Lao Jiang!"

"Lao Jiang!"

"Lao Jiang!"

……

This was the farewell to Jiang Chen by tens of thousands of people at the scene.

Jiang Chen had a smile on his face and his eyes were a little moist. He waved to everyone as he walked.

Han Qing followed Jiang Chen, took the initiative to reach out and grab Jiang Chen's hand, and left with Jiang Chen.

Many people took out their mobile phones to take pictures of the two, leaving behind the scene of the two leaving here together.

Some people even broadcast live to target the two of them, and there were quite a few viewers in the live broadcast room.

Because the audience who watched Jiang Chen's live broadcast wanted to continue watching Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen went offline at the speed of light after the performance ended, which made the audience in many live broadcast rooms a little unsatisfied. So when they found that there were other live broadcast rooms broadcasting the scene of Jiang Chen leaving, they all rushed in to take a look.

For example, in the live broadcast rooms of two local Shanghai anchors, Anjie and Xiaolu, the number of online users has exceeded 10,000, reaching the peak moment since they became anchors.

An Jie wiped his eyes while live streaming and said: "I want to go with Lao Jiang. Like everyone else, I am reluctant to see Lao Jiang leave. I also want to come and watch Lao Jiang's performance every day. This is the best live performance I have ever seen in my life. But why should we stop Lao Jiang from doing something we want to do but cannot do?"

"I can only hope that Lao Jiang has a smooth journey, that all his wishes come true, and that he finds his true happiness."

The number of people in Anjie's live broadcast room once soared to more than 18,000 people, most of whom were local people from Shanghai, and they all sent barrages of messages to see Jiang Chen off.

"Goodbye, Old Jiang!"

"Old Jiang, remember to start live streaming even when you leave Shanghai. Shanghai people will always support you."

"I'm waiting for Lao Jiang to upload a new song. I love this song "You in the Past" so much. Just listening to the first line is enough!"

"Old Jiang is really going to travel the world with his sword."

……

Xiaolu, who was broadcasting live not far away, was excited and waved to Jiang Chen with a sad face. The number of people online in the live broadcast room was approaching 20,000!

Jiang Chen is now the traffic password in Shanghai.

There are at least a dozen internet celebrities broadcasting live here, and the number of people in each broadcast room is over thousands. There are even more ordinary people who join in the fun and broadcast live, and there are dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people in each broadcast room, all of whom have enjoyed this wave of traffic dividends.

Jiang Chen did not stay too long to interact with everyone. He pulled Han Qing and quickly walked through the long crowd and entered the subway station. He left quickly and cleanly!

Many people followed Jiang Chen into the subway station, watched him get on the subway, and then returned to the bar street to continue their nightlife.

Jiang Chen left, and they couldn't leave, so they could only enjoy themselves where they were.

Back on the subway, Jiang Chen naturally let go of Han Qing's soft hand, leaned back in the chair and relaxed, feeling a little tired.

Han Qing beside him looked at Jiang Chen tenderly and quickly took out a water cup and handed it to Jiang Chen: "Drink some more water. Do you want to eat something? I brought some food with me in case you get hungry during the performance."

Jiang Chen nodded, drank some water, took a piece of bread and ate it, looking at the crowd on the subway and the darkness outside the subway: "We're leaving tomorrow, do you still want to go back to the Magic City?"

Han Qing shook her head: "I don't want to!" Han Qing has been here for less than two years, but she has also felt the huge pressure of life in this city. The city is also somewhat unfriendly to outsiders and she is very tired every day.

However, she knew that it was not just Shanghai, but all big cities were like this, with a fast pace of life, high pressure of life, and high cost of living!

She doesn't want to live in a big city anymore.

However, it is also true that there are many opportunities in big cities, which attract many young people to come in and pursue their dreams, and then rush to escape. This cycle repeats every year, some want to come in, and some want to go out.

Jiang Chen: "Tomorrow morning, when Yuexi and the others arrive, we'll leave."

Han Qing smiled: "Okay!"

After saying that, Jiang Chen quickly finished the bread and filled his stomach. Then he took out his mobile phone and uploaded the song "You in Your Past" to the Penguin Music platform.

Han Qing showed Jiang Chen his Weibo account and said, "Your Weibo account was just registered not long ago, but the number of followers has exceeded 50,000. If you say it next time you broadcast live, more people will follow you."

It is very rare for an account without any promotion or operation to have more than 50,000 followers in just one or two hours.

Jiang Chen shook his head: "No need, just go with the flow."

He refreshed the background and found that the song "You in the Past" he had just uploaded instantly had more than 10,500 downloads. At this moment, many people were waiting for him to upload this song.

Jiang Chen smiled slightly, this met some of his expectations.

He likes this song very much, so naturally he hopes that it will be liked by everyone and that it can achieve better sales results to prove this.

The sales volume at this moment is proof that it gives him a sense of accomplishment!

In just a dozen seconds, there were more than 10,000 downloads.

Refresh it again and there are more than 13,000.

In one minute, the number of downloads exceeded 20,000!

Sales increased faster than any previous song.

Jiang Chen turned to Han Qing and said, "Say something on Weibo."

Han Qing's eyes lit up: "Do you have anything to say to everyone?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Well, let me tell you. I once dreamed of traveling the world with a sword, but later I was too busy with work and didn't go."

Han Qing couldn't help but burst out laughing when she heard this, and then she said seriously: "This sentence sounds a bit funny and joyful at first, but if you think about it carefully, it's too cruel!"

Later I was too busy with work and didn't go...

Isn’t this the current situation for all ordinary people?

Han Qing immediately wrote this sentence on Weibo. Once it was uploaded, it immediately attracted thousands of comments, reposts and likes.

"Is Lao Jiang laughing at us? Woohoo! You really are going to travel the world with your sword, and we are too busy with work to go."

"I felt like laughing at first, then crying!"

"Lao Jiang, talk to us more. We want to know what you are doing."

……

Got off the subway.

Jiang Chen and Han Qing had a quick dinner at the restaurant downstairs, then went back to their respective rental houses to rest.

Han Qing stood at the door and watched Jiang Chen return to his room and then close the door. There was some reluctance and eagerness in her eyes, but in the end, her face flushed with shyness and she turned around and walked into her room.

Jiang Chen had just returned to his room and was about to wash up and go to bed when the phone rang.

I thought it was another company or platform contacting him and didn't want to answer the call, but when I looked at it, I found it was my mother calling, so I picked up the phone immediately.

"Mom, have you had dinner?"

Jiang Chen greeted.

Mom: "I ate it! Son, your dad and I just ran into our neighbor Lao Zhang. Lao Zhang said you're famous in Shanghai. He showed me a video. The person singing in the video looks a lot like you, and his name is also Jiang Chen!"

My mother's voice was a little complicated, some disbelief, some nervousness and excitement, but more of it was confusion.

Jiang Chen said softly: "Mom, that's me. I'm performing in the Magic City these days."

My mother's voice suddenly became much louder: "Is it really your child? Can you write your own songs? And sing them yourself?"

My mother's tone was still full of doubt.

Jiang Chen has never had any musical talent since he was a child, and his singing is just at the standard of being able to sing, which is definitely not the same level as what she saw in the video.

If they didn't look exactly like each other and were also called Jiang Chen, she would never have believed that he was the son she raised.

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Mom, that's me! I had some ideas recently, so I studied creation hard and tried to write a few songs myself. I didn't expect that everyone liked them very much, and they became popular by accident."

My mother was silent for a while, digesting the news, and then said in a complicated tone: "I didn't expect your child to have a talent for music. If I had known earlier, I would have asked you to study music well."

The mother felt somewhat guilty, thinking that she had delayed Jiang Chen's musical development. If he had started learning music earlier and displayed his talent, he might have become famous earlier and his life would have been very different. He might have been married and had a family by now, and she could have taken care of her grandchildren and enjoyed her old age.

Jiang Chen consoled her, "It's not that simple, Mom. This kind of artistic thing requires enlightenment. Once you understand it, you will be able to do it. I didn't have these insights before. Even if I studied, I wouldn't have achieved anything. There are so many people with great musical talent in the world, but how many of them have become famous?"

Mom: "I see! I heard that you were laid off and are leaving Shanghai to travel? So when will you come home? You are famous now and can make a lot of money. It would be the same if you go back to your hometown to develop your career, right? You can find someone with better conditions to talk to. With your current conditions, I will ask someone to find you the best one in Shanghai."

Sure enough, my mother would not stop talking about finding a partner after three sentences.

Jiang Chen hurriedly stopped her and said, "Mom, don't worry! I'm currently in the rising stage of my career, and finding a partner will hinder my career development."

My mother got angry when she heard this: "You're still traveling during your growth period? Why don't you develop yourself?"

Jiang Chen: "Traveling is also about finding inspiration. If I want to create, I have to travel around and look for inspiration. If I think about love all day long, how can I write a good song?"

Mom: "Your kid didn't fool me?"

Jiang Chen: "No, I promise."

Mom: "Who is that girl with you? She looks like a fairy."

Jiang Chen: "Oh, you mean Han Qing, she is my live broadcast assistant, my employee, and I am her boss!"

Mom: “I think she’s pretty good!”

Jiang Chen: "She is my employee. We have a purely work relationship. Don't worry about it. If not, you and dad should take some time to go travel and relax. I will give you some money and you can go wherever you want."

I added in my heart: Just stop urging me and bothering me.

Mom: "What? You made a lot of money? You start to dislike your mom for talking too much?"

Jiang Chen: "Mom, you misunderstood. I was like this when I had no money."

Mom: "Get lost, your kid still deserves a beating, come back when you have time!"

Jiang Chen: "Okay, okay, I got it!"

hang up the phone.

Jiang Chen did not feel any pressure or anger, only some warmth in his heart. As for his mother's urging, he had long been accustomed to it. His skin was as thick as a city wall and he didn't care anymore. He kept his mother's concern and automatically filtered out the nagging.

You can say whatever you want, I will still do my own thing.

I calmed down, washed up, then lay down to rest and checked my phone.

The landlord has returned the deposit and the remaining rent to Jiang Chen - Jiang Chen, have a safe journey, you are always welcome here.

Jiang Chen replied: Thank you, landlord.

Zhang Yang, the former company manager, sent a message: "Jiang Chen, have a safe trip. I will always watch your live broadcast."

Jiang Chen: "Thank you, Lao Zhang. I wish you success in your career and get rich soon!"

Zhang Yang: "I dare not think about it. I am thankful that I am not laid off. Otherwise, I would be at a loss as to what to do with my mortgage."

Jiang Chen didn't know how to comfort Zhang Yang and could only remain silent.

There are many examples of people experiencing midlife crisis and going from earning tens of thousands a month to delivering takeout food after being laid off. Jiang Chen can only hope that something like this will not happen to Zhang Yang and that he can live a stable life.

……

Han Qing just sent a message: "Good night, leaving tomorrow!"

Jiang Chen replied: "Good night, we'll leave tomorrow!"

Pu Yuexi sent a message: "We will set out to pick you up at ten o'clock tomorrow, let's go together!"

Jiang Chen: "Okay, we'll wait for you and set off together!"

Pu Yuexi: "Where is the first stop?"

Jiang Chen: "Go north, wherever you go is where you are! Youth has no destination, only the sky."

Pu Yuexi: "I was inexplicably moved. I was impressed by your acting again."

Jiang Chen: "Just get used to it!"

Pu Yuexi: "Okay, I'll get used to it! Good night!"

Jiang Chen: "Good night!"

After replying to a few messages, Jiang Chen looked at the background of Penguin Music again, ignoring many messages and private messages, wanting to check the sales data of the new song before going to bed.

The you of the past was just uploaded about an hour ago.

Jiang Chen was pleasantly surprised by the sales figures, and his sleepiness disappeared a lot.

(End of this chapter)